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Is there a way to install a program like gedit for example without being root?
I tried to install gedit by doing:
./configure --prefix=~
make;make install
But then it blocks at configure because of missing packages. (I'm on a Debian system with KDE)
Now I installed those packages:
-gnome-doc-utils
-libxml
-libxslt
using those tricks:
But I still get these errors when running ./configure for gedit:
Code:
checking for GEDIT... configure: error: Package requirements (
glib-2.0 >= 2.12.0
gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0
gtksourceview-1.0 >= 1.8.0
libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.16.0
libglade-2.0 >= 2.5.1
libgnomeprintui-2.2 >= 2.12.1
gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.16.0
) were not met:
Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.12.0' but version of GLib is 2.6.4
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GEDIT_CFLAGS
and GEDIT_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
How can I know how many packages I'll have to install?
Will I end up with installing the whole gnome desktop?!
Is there a simpler way to do this like some --prefix option for apt-get?
[I know I'm not supposed to install programs as a simple user, but I don't have gedit on the system and was wondering if I could install it as a user.]
Oops, sorry, that was just a typo. In fact I had it written like this /u/login/, and I just wanted to remove the login. (and I don't know why it's /u instead of /home, it's just configured like this here)
Quote:
Use something like kedit, kate.
That's what I'm doing and I learned to love kate. ^^
I was just curious to know if I could install gedit without having root powers.
Thanks for the "apt-cache show gedit" command.
Does it search for the dependencies recursively, also considering what is already installed and not?
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